That Spiritual Girl Next Door

A gentle 15-minute bedtime meditation for kids, created from the meditation I do with my own girls every night.JUMP PAST INTRO: 1:09My kids actually asked me to record this one, so I thought I'd share it here in case it helps another family too.This is a simple body scan designed to help children slow down, relax their bodies, release the worries and energy from the day, and settle into sleep. It starts with a few calming breaths and then gently moves from the top of the head all the way down to the toes.At the end, we imagine giving our worries and tired energy to Mother Earth, who transforms them into something beautiful for tomorrow.You can simply play this at bedtime, or use the transcript to read it yourself. I truly believe there is something especially comforting about hearing a parent's voice at bedtime.📖 WANT TO READ IT YOURSELF?I've included the full transcript in a Google Doc so you can read it directly to your child or record your own version.Meditation ScriptIf this helps your family, I'd love to hear about it in the comments.Sweet dreams. ❤️ABOUT THAT SPIRITUAL GIRL NEXT DOORDown-to-earth conversations that are out of this world.I'm Kelly, and That Spiritual Girl Next Door is where we explore spirituality, consciousness, intuition, the unexplained, and all the weird and wonderful questions that make us wonder what the heck is actually going on.No fear. No dogma. No robes required.Subscribe for more curious conversations and the occasional bedtime meditation from a random girl from the South with a Southern twang.#BedtimeMeditation #KidsMeditation #SleepMeditation #MeditationForKids #SleepForKids #SouthernAccent

DON'T LISTEN FOR THE ANSWERS. LISTEN FOR THE PRACTICES.What kinds of practices shape us into the kind of people who can recognize when it's time to change?In this episode, I'm joined by holistic coach, singer-songwriter, and soon-to-be author Gina Marie Slager to explore a lifelong spiritual journey that took an unexpected turn.For more than twenty-seven years, Gina immersed herself in yoga, meditation, chanting, world religions, motherhood, music, and holistic healing. But instead of asking where her journey ultimately led, I found myself asking a different question:How did she become the kind of person who could recognize something profound when it happened?Together we explore the practices that quietly shape us over a lifetime—and how those ordinary practices may prepare us to hear our own inner voice when life asks us to change.Whether you're deeply religious, spiritually curious, deconstructing your faith, or simply trying to make sense of your own path, this conversation isn't about telling you what to believe.It's about learning to listen.IN THIS EPISODE• Why people become spiritual seekers• Motherhood as a practice of presence• Finding your voice through music and chanting• Walking as meditation• Why Gina explored yoga, Buddhism, Hinduism, Sikhism, and Kabbalah• Gina's unexpected return to Christ consciousness• Discernment vs. persuasion• The freedom of surrender• Why community matters more than ever• The courage to take the leap—even when you're scared━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━⏱️ CHAPTERS00:00 — Why We Become Seekers01:40 — Don't Listen for the Answers. Listen for the Practices.02:49 — Meet Gina Marie Slager03:12 — The Phone Call That Changed This Episode05:23 — Practices vs. Destinations07:09 — Motherhood as a Spiritual Practice11:03 — Music, Expression & Finding Your Voice13:32 — Walking, Meditation & Trust, Peace, Surrender, Freedom17:32 — The Practice of Listening17:46 — Exploring Every Spiritual Tradition19:01 — Returning to Christ Consciousness21:05 — Spirituality vs. Religion22:15 — Embodying Faith Through Movement23:55 — Trusting Something Bigger Than Yourself26:28 — Discernment, Catholic Guilt & Returning with New Eyes32:09 — Fearless Feminine Freedom34:08 — Freedom, Community & Letting Go35:23 — Do It Shaking in Your Boots37:35 — One Final Question━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━CONNECT WITH GINA🌿 Websitehttps://ginamarieslager.com🎵 MusicTrust, Peace, Surrender, Freedom━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━CONNECT WITH KELLY🎙️ Podcast:Apple Podcasts📸 Instagram:@thatspiritualgirlnextdoor▶️ YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@ThatSpiritualGirlNextDoor━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━What practice has quietly shaped the person you're becoming?Share your thoughts in the comments—I read every one.

Your Body Is Listening to the Thoughts You ThinkWhat if your body isn't working against you... but communicating with you?In this episode, I'm joined by hypnotherapist Peter McLaughlin to explore the fascinating connection between the subconscious mind, trauma, physical pain, hypnosis, past life regression, and healing.Peter's journey into this work began after being diagnosed with leukemia and later navigating Lyme disease. Those experiences led him beyond conventional medicine and into more than a decade of studying hypnosis, subconscious healing, regression work, and helping others uncover the deeper roots behind emotional and physical patterns.Together, we explore questions like:✨ Is physical pain ever trying to tell us something?✨ What is hypnosis... really?✨ Can unresolved emotions show up in the body?✨ Are past lives literal, symbolic, or something else entirely?✨ How much power does our imagination actually have?✨ Can changing subconscious patterns change our lives?Whether you're skeptical, spiritually curious, or somewhere in between, this conversation isn't about telling you what to believe—it's about asking better questions.In This Episode• Peter's healing journey through leukemia and Lyme disease• Taking ownership of your own healing• The emotional roots of physical pain• What hypnosis actually is (and what it isn't)• Havening and subconscious reprocessing• Why your imagination may be more powerful than you've been taught• Past life regression and remarkable client stories• Hypnosis vs. psychedelics• Practical ways to begin exploring your subconscious━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━⏱️ Chapters00:22 — Meet Peter McLaughlin01:35 — A Leukemia Diagnosis Changed Everything05:20 — Why You Have to Own Your Healing09:25 — What Actually Happens in a Hypnosis Session17:04 — Using a Pendulum to Talk to the Subconscious20:43 — Why We've Been Taught to Distrust Our Imagination28:49 — Havening: A Faster Way to Reprocess Trauma30:46 — What Is Hypnosis, Really?41:13 — A Live Havening Demonstration48:34 — Holding Space for Someone's Deepest Wounds56:12 — Peter's Own Past-Life Experience1:01:20 — Are Past Lives Real—or Powerful Metaphors?1:03:36 — Hypnosis vs. Psychedelics1:05:46 — Final Thoughts━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Connect with Peter🌐 BlueSky Hypnosishttps://www.blueskyhypnosis.com/🌐 Peter McLaughlinhttps://www.petermclaughlin.com/▶️ YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@BlueSkyHypnosis━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Connect with Kelly🎙️ Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/that-spiritual-girl-next-door/id1765387735📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatspiritualgirlnextdoor▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thatspiritualgirlnextdoor

What if the eyes are only one way to "see" the world?After a few months away to focus on family and the "spiritual practice of real life," I’m back with Part 2 of my conversation with Dr. Brooke Soto—and it takes us to the very edge of what we believe is possible.In this episode, we dive deep into Mindsight: a practice where individuals (often children) learn to perceive their environment, identify colors, and even read text while completely blindfolded. Dr. Brooke Soto, founder of the Mindsight Training Institute, explains how this isn't just a "trick," but a window into the untapped potential of human consciousness.In this conversation, we explore:• Defining Mindsight: What it is and why children seem to access it more naturally than adults.• Dermal Activation: How the skin and body can "perceive" information without relying on the eyes.• Belief vs. The Analytical Mind: Why our skepticism is often the only thing standing in the way of our intuition.• Remote Viewing & Telepathy: How Mindsight connects to broader psychic and intuitive abilities.• Shared Consciousness: A powerful mid-episode demonstration with Brooke’s son, Robbie.Meet RobbieMidway through the episode, we are joined by Brooke’s son, Robbie. Robbie is an autistic pre-teen and nonspeaker who communicates via spelling. Together, they demonstrate a profound shared consciousness and telepathic connection in real-time.Watch vs. ListenBecause this episode includes live demonstrations of Mindsight and Robbie’s communication, I highly recommend watching the video version. You can find the full video on YouTube, and it is also available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.Whether you are a deep believer or a curious skeptic, this conversation is an invitation to ask: What else am I capable of that I haven't tried yet?———CONNECT WITH DR. BROOKE SOTO🌐 Website: https://www.drbrookesoto.com/📱 Quanta Bliss App: https://www.drbrookesoto.com/app📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drbrookesoto📚 Marc's book, "Aliens Out of Earth": https://a.co/d/0e6XcPXk———CONNECT WITH ME📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatspiritualgirlnextdoor▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ThatSpiritualGirlNextDoor———CHAPTERS00:00 Welcome back: The "Sandwich Generation" & Life as a Practice05:35 Defining Mindsight: Beyond physical vision09:30 Teaching children Mindsight23:40 Connection to Remote Viewing & Intuition27:00 Meet Robbie: Shared consciousness and telepathy32:45 Live Demonstration: Robbie’s communication59:30 What is really happening in the brain?1:05:00 Mindsight and the Autistic community1:18:30 Dermal Activation: Seeing through the skin1:26:30 Live Mindsight demonstrations with Brooke1:44:30 Telekinesis and the "Dime Experiment"1:47:15 Final Thoughts: "If you tell Mindsight to show you, it will."#Mindsight #Consciousness #Telepathy #HumanPotential #Intuition #Spirituality #RemoteViewing #DrBrookeSoto

What if your exhaustion isn’t a sign that something is breaking… but that something is reorganizing?In this episode, I’m joined by Niko the Medium, a trance medium, teacher, and author who brings clarity and grounded wisdom through a collective consciousness called Noah — a group of archangelic beings here to support our evolution.WHAT WE COVER:– What trance mediumship actually is (and isn't)– How to understand disorientation as recalibration– Why trance states help us become more ourselves, not escape reality– How Niko connects to Noah and who this collective really is– A real-time guided trance exercise you can follow along with– A powerful message from Noah about the phase humanity is in right now🎙 One quick context note before we begin:There’s a section where we talk about activism and the state of the world. This is not an episode telling anyone to disengage or ignore injustice. It’s an exploration of something many of us are feeling — that when we’re emotionally flooded, even well-intentioned actions can become reactionary or draining.The invitation here is regulation for clarity. Because when your inner state is steady, whatever you choose to do — speak up, parent your kids, have hard conversations, donate, create — comes from a place of presence, not panic.Some people are called to be out front. Others are called to stabilize the room. This episode is about that role.🔮 CHAPTERS00:00 Hook + Intro01:35 Who is Niko the Medium?02:48 What Is Trance Mediumship?06:05 Disorientation as Evolution09:40 What Is Noah?14:00 Guided Trance Practice (Follow Along)21:00 Channeling Begins — Noah Comes Through28:12 A Message for the Collective33:40 Holding Coherence in a Chaotic World38:00 The Role of the Stabilizer42:15 Why You're Not “Doing It Wrong”45:00 How to Connect with Spirit Safely49:15 Final Thoughts + Ways to Work with Niko🌐 CONNECT WITH NIKOWebsite: https://www.nikothemedium.comOfferings: Private Sessions, Group Circles, Books, CoursesInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/nikothemedium💫 CONNECT WITH KELLYInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatspiritualgirlnextdoorYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ThatSpiritualGirlNextDoorSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1YfjCr9r5X8kXLiTHQcgF3Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/that-spiritual-girl-next-door/id1765387735